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mouthy, a.|ˈmaʊðɪ|
[f. mouth n. + -y.]
Characterized by railing, ranting, or the use of bombastic language: a. of persons.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvii. (Arb.) 189 As another said to a mouthy Aduocate, why barkest thou at me so sore? 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely To Rdr. 15 Bestow these thy qualicums (thou mouthy Sophister) vpon some younger eares. 1819Byron Juan i. ccv, Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed..the third so quaint and mouthy. 1850W. Irving Goldsmith 137 He..was prone to be mouthy and magniloquent. 1957M. Spark Comforters v. 102 Before they said good night, Eleanor, slurred and mouthy, declared, ‘Now, Laurence, take care of Caroline.’ 1963W. H. Boore Valley & Shadow ix. 43 Too free you have been..with your talk... Too mouthy all of you. 1968Sun Mag. (Baltimore) 13 Oct. 19/2, I was kind of a big mouth. I wasn't a bully, just mouthy. 1972News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 30 Dec. 4/2 Whatever else they are, kids aren't biggity, mouthy [any more].
b. of language.
1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 737 Much more to the same purpose, mouthy and magnificent. 1887Athenæum 3 Sept. 302/3 Although somewhat ‘mouthy’, it [the poem] possesses considerable power and impressiveness.
c. Of a hound: (see quots.).
1946M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 457 A hound that is noisy and a babbler is said to be ‘mouthy’. 1968J. Gordon Beagle Guide 173 A hound which babbles or is unnecessarily noisy is said to be mouthy.
Hence ˈmouthily adv., ˈmouthiness.
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 142 Playing the Mocking Bird to the Muse, with a monotonous mouthiness..that cannot deceive a schoolboy. |